Hardworking people of Southwest Florida need your help

8:51 PM,
Apr. 27, 2013

Jim Nathan

Written by

Jim Nathan
mailbag@news-press.com

Florida has a chance to do the right thing. We need your help convincing lawmakers to do it.

Your neighbors, hard-working but low income, are struggling to get the medical care they need. A 52-year-old single man lives alone, has diabetes, neuropathy, a foot ulcer, symptoms of depression, no means of transportation and no health insurance. He needs access to medical care. A 30-year-old man with a bone disease and no insurance relies on the Emergency Department (ED) for care. He needs access to medical care. Two women - one 49 years old and the other 50 years old - who struggle with being ...